On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 08:56:33AM +0200, Jakub Friedl wrote: > I think that "use image file quality unless defaults are 'better'" is not > thee problem. Problem is inheriting image quality between different images > in one GIMP session. I have a default quality of 85. Then I open DSLR image > with quality 95. Save it with that quality. Then I open and save low quality > cameraphone image. But I am not offered my default nor the original > cameraphone quality (which would be both understandable) but the DSLR > quality of 95. Huh? These images have nothing in common except they have > been opened in the same editor session. Do not mix them up. There are times I definitely *want* to save the settings from a previous save. A common task for me is to edit ten or so images to present at 300x225 pixel size on the web. Of course, I don't want to save exif or thumbnail, so the carrying-over of these choices (and I don't know if this is fixed in 2.4 or not) is appreciated. Not wanting to use *too* much memory on my server, I will usually tweak the jpeg quality factor down to something less than the default 85, and I like having this carry forward from image to image when I am doing this task. If one looks too degraded at the new setting, then I can tweak it upwards, or if one is too big, then I can try lessening the quality, but I certainly wouldn't like to have each new image return to the default, or to some value determined by the image itself. I want to be in control but not have to control too much, if you know what I mean. I want the software to remember what I am doing. Couldn't there be a button somewhere to "forget previous settings" or "begin new task"? Actually, that would be helpful in many other situations, such as the file-save directory (and this is probably a GTK issue, I suppose). Now, I have to select the directory *every time*, even though I "obviously" want to save all 10 images to the same directory. Sort of like "fifty first dates".... Actually, the more I think about it, the idea of a "begin task - end task" pair of buttons makes sense to me. Perhaps there could be pre-defined task parameters which the user has set up for different ones. Such as defaults for the resize-image, crop image, save directory, etc, etc. Maybe something like this already exists and I don't know about it. Who knows.... scott swanson just a user..... _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
